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I don't know about you guys but I'm a bit of a fan of the look and feel of the AUG. Handled a few but never fired any. Anyone know if they're actually worth the insane price tag?

i think possmum is pretty familar with the aug, if he ever finds his way back in here

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Originally Posted by PenGuin1362

I don't know about you guys but I'm a bit of a fan of the look and feel of the AUG. Handled a few but never fired any. Anyone know if they're actually worth the insane price tag?

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How much are they?

The rifle is heavy, the mags are shit and will eventually (through lots of use - don't expect this to happen fast unless you stand on them, but you may need to replace them 10-15 years down the line) form cracks or burrs around the feed lips causing you all kinds of strife, the entire FCG including hammer is made of the same shit the stock is (!) so eventually you will have a firing pin-shaped dent eroded into the front of your hammer and the weapon will fail to go bang as a result, and the buttpad is a weird shape so it won't shoulder consistently.

That's most of my "ugghhh this fucking thing" out of the way, so onto positive points:

As a civilian shooter you can presumably find aftermarket shit to replace the most common points of failure. The rifle is fairly reliable as long as you look after it, and every stoppage I had in the (admittedly comparatively few) rounds I put through them was on a clapped-out, utterly fucked rifle I was issued at basic. The receiver is so solid you could drive over it with a truck and it would be fine - the actual important parts of the rifle are built like a tank, which is why it weighs so damn much. The QD barrrel is a nice feature, but I dunno how much use it'd be to a civilian shooter - we always removed the barrel to confirm the weapon was clear though, so there's that. The integrated optic is okay I guess, and totally overbuilt, but you want a rail and something better. It is retardedly simple to take apart and a fucking functional retard could perform a full strip in well under a minute, blindfolded, with no tools. It handles fairly nicely even though it is awkwardly shaped. Reloading in any stance is easy, ignore any reactionary anti-bullpup bullshit that says otherwise. From what I saw the rifle was quite accurate. It's a fucking space gun. I used to hate it but the look has really, really grown on me.

Expect a far worse aftermarket than an AR. Steyrs are a weird speciality that are mostly bought by people with an actual interest in the gun, or bullpups in general. In terms of practicality vs. cost, an AR is a better choice, but in terms of just being out there, the Steyr is a nice enough rifle.

Yeah it'd be one of those buys "because I can"....If I could... They seem to run about 2k to 3k There's a few licensed Steyr manufacturers around that sell to the civilian market. for optics I'd run just a standard rail with irons. This will probably be a buy a bit down the line, which unfortunately at that point they'll be even harder to find :/

$3k? holy fucking shit

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Originally Posted by PenGuin1362

I don't know about you guys but I'm a bit of a fan of the look and feel of the AUG. Handled a few but never fired any. Anyone know if they're actually worth the insane price tag?

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An MSAR STG-556 is about $1000-$1500 cheaper, you can use $15 STANAG magazines instead of $90 proprietary mags you can only find on Gunbroker, and there are way more options available for that platform than the standard AUG.

I've got a story to share. Wall of text inbound!

My father had purchased a used .50 cal Bobcat muzzle-loader a while back and we fired it for the first time today. It uses percussion caps and black powder. He picked it up for around $60, which is a fair price for the gun. It has a synthetic stock, not the traditional wood stock that everyone loves. 1:48 twist, the gun was made in Spain. The previous owner apparently didn't clean it thoroughly before selling it because the bore was just lined with powder and rust.

We had my mother-in-law's cousin come out to help us. He's a huge gun-nut; he's got quite a collection, and he even made a few guns himself. Anyways, we get out and get the Bobcat all prepped for firing. My father gets the rifle loaded, 50-grain black powder just to start. He fires and it goes off without a hitch. Not much action since he didn't put a lot of powder in. So he steps it up to 70. This time, there's a real bang! to it. If we jumped up to the recommended 100-grain it would be tons more exciting, but we were just putting her through her paces at the time.

After a few shots we realize that the cap wouldn't ignite the powder. Okay, so we try cleaning it out again. We flushed it with hot water, we used cleaner, and so on. We try it again and it fires. Another shot goes off and then it stops again. Well, after a bit of checking, we figure out that the nipple for the cap had one small issue. The hole was too small and backwash was getting in and clogging it up. Unfortunately, we didn't have a drill bit smaller than 1/16", so we couldn't widen the hole.

We fired off more shots for a couple of hours, still having either a delay or a misfire every other shot. Well, our gun-nut had brought his .54 cal muzzle loader as well. It too used percussion caps to ignite the powder. Of course, there was a bit of a comparison between the two. The hole in the nipple was larger on the .54, but aside from that and caliber, they were functionally the same. Albeit, the .54 was both louder, more reliable, and four times as expensive as the .50, but aside from those they were identical.

And of course, I had a chance to fire both. The first time I fired the .50 it worked like a gem. The second time I tried, there was the longest delay I have ever experienced with a firearm. It might as well have been a flint-lock. I could have ordered a pizza (hypothetically speaking) in the time it took to fire the rifle. Of course, the first time I grab that .54 I make bulls-eye (which isn't saying much since we were only about 25 yards way for testing :saddowns:).

It was neat. I've never fired a percussion-cap before and that was pretty fun for the first time. I'll have to help my father go out and find a new nipple so it doesn't get clogged 50% of the time. I would have posted pictures, but my computer doesn't like the SD card I use on my camera.

Also, thank that auto-save feature. One of my drivers crashed causing a blue screen. I was so not going to re-type this whole thing.

cant you just drill it?

I was at an indoor pistol range with a friend last year, which had a real nazi RSO. He walked up and down the line, tut-tutting at everybody's shooting form and kicking people out of the range who fired more than 15 rounds a minute. There was this huge, exasperated list of rules at the range that everybody had better follow or there would be trouble!!! So my friend went to his car and got his Uberti 1860 Army cap-and-ball revolver out. Nowhere on the list of rules did it say black powder wasn't allowed.

One shot filled the entire range with smoke, overloading the dinky little fans they had in there, causing the RSO to evacuate the range until the smoke had cleared. We got banned from the range for life, but it was worth it.

And then there was the time we shot a dead squirrel out of a blunderbuss, but that's a story for another time.

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Originally Posted by TVTyrant

cant you just drill it?

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We didn't have anything smaller than a 1/16" drill bit and that would make the hole way too large.

We actually pulled out the electric drill and a box of our smallest drill bits to see how big the hole would be. It was an instant, "Fuck it, buy a new nipple or a smaller set of drill bits."